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Study: Vitamin D Insufficiency Worsens Sleep Problems in Children with ADHD

ADDitude

April 29, 2025 Vitamin D insufficiency worsens sleep problems in children with ADHD, but it does not directly affect the condition’s symptoms or functional impairments, a recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology found. Nearly three-quarters of children with ADHD experience a sleep problem or disorder.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

Mad in America

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. However, she passed away from childbirth complications at the age of 26.

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ARFID Elevates Risk for ADHD, Autism in Youth: New Study

ADDitude

These results stand out amid the relatively scarce research data on ARFID , an eating disorder added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders ( DSM-5 ) in 2013. One ADDitude reader, Tiffany Bird, suffered decades of poor health before being diagnosed with ARFID in her late 20s.

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

Mad in America

A review of four newer studies, from 2008 to 2011, estimated that there were over 400,000 drug deaths in US hospitals. As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. for those aged 70-79. drug deaths per 1000 patients (a 1% death rate).